> Marc has recently made a start on answering this question in the neat
> paper (Breedlove, 1997) which Rick is thinking of which received
> widespread publicity. Marc showed that copulatory experience (Nature
> doesn't like the F-word, apparently) increases the size of neurons in a
> region of the spinal cord in rats.
Stephen's memory is eidetic as usually with the exception of one false memory. According to the press release I found in the TIPS archives that discusses the research, "Four weeks after the female cagemates were introduced, the cell bodies and nuclei of SNB [the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus] motoneurons of copulators were
significantly smaller than those of the non-copulators."
Rick
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